Cut Paper Portraits Illustrate Our Connectedness with the World at Large

Illus­tra­tor Mol­ly Costel­lo crafts com­pelling por­trai­ture from cut paper. The exquis­ite compositions—powerful in their simplicity—are informed by her years “work­ing on urban youth pro­gram­ming around sus­tain­abil­i­ty and social injus­tice,” reflect­ing the themes she encoun­tered dur­ing that time: com­mu­ni­ty, strug­gle, love, and more. “Through my work I focus on ideas of con­nect­ed­ness,” she writes, “con­nect­ed­ness with our whole selves, with each oth­er, our com­mu­ni­ties, its sys­tems, the nat­ur­al world, and the ener­gy and divine of our uni­verse at large.”

Mol­ly sells prints of her work on Etsy!